Sentences with phrase «technical potential»

The second compares solar technical potential and residential electricity use, with and without efficiency.

While technical potential is a measure of renewable potential based on system performance and land use constraints, the new report also considers renewable generation costs in comparison to prevailing electricity prices.

Global geothermal technical potential is comparable to the global primary energy supply in 2008.

The difference in the two sets of numbers represents the significant gap between technical potential on the one hand and economic and operational potential on the other hand.

The newest estimates of U.S. technical potential for renewable energy generation and capacity were reported recently by scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the U.S. Department of Energy research facility.

We looked for states where the solar technical potential in the residential sector was at least 50 % of current residential consumption, or of residential consumption if energy efficiency were to reduce consumption by an average of 30 %.

US renewable energy technical potentials: a GIS - based analysis.

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-- Under the scenarios analyzed in - depth, less than 2.5 percent of the globally available technical potential for renewables is used — in other words over 97 percent is untapped underlining that availability of renewable source will not be a limiting factor.

«There is enormous technical potential to using microgrids to make electric service more resilient in the face of loss of bulk grid power,» said the report.

A group of researchers that includes Johannes Lehmann of Cornell University, the closest thing biochar has to a spiritual father, has attempted to calculate just how much impact the technology could have on climate change if societies all over the world transformed their waste streams into biochar production facilities - «the maximum sustainable technical potential of biochar to mitigate climate change».

► Technical potential is the amount by which it is possible to reduce heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions or improve energy efficiency by implementing a technology or practice that has already been demonstrated.

The IEPR Committee seeks comments on the new estimates of CHP technical potential and market and regulatory scenarios, as well as alternate ownership options for CHP.

A 2016 report from the US Departments of Energy and Interior estimated that there was enough technical potential in US offshore wind to power the nation twice over.

Good solar resources and large populations make Texas and California the leaders in estimated urban utility - scale PV technical potential.

The combined technical potential of these opportunities is estimated at 30 % globally, varying between 20 and 50 % for different regions (Humphreys and Mahasenan, 2002; Kim and Worrell, 2002b).

Rattan Lal reports the maximum global technical potential for sequestration in soils and biomass at 320 gigatons of carbon, or 1,174 gigatons of carbon dioxide.

Last month the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released the report Rooftop Solar Technical Potential for Low - to - Moderate Income Households in the United States.

U.S. Renewable Energy Technical Potentials: A GIS - Based Analysis.

Jonas» argument relies on the technical potential of Tesla's Autopilot system and the company's ability to collect extensive driving data from customers.

The spirit of this, to be candid, is to suspend reality for a moment with respect to the policy challenge and the financial challenge and first just assess the technical potential.

While Olesen looks at the technical potential of various technologies for utilizing crop residues and manure as bioenergy sources, social scientists and economists study social constraints on such mitigation measures, such as profitability and the mindset of farmers.

All of this data refers to the so - called «technical potential», which entails a cooling (using water) of 10 ºC in rocks that are at least 150 ºC to extract a fraction of energy during the 30 - year operating period.

Altogether the technical potential of the continent exceeds 6,500 GW of electricity.

This work is a follow - on analysis to NREL's 2012 report that estimated the technical potential of U.S. renewable generation.

The report finds these countries all have the technical potential to swap all their coal with existing gas power stations, meaning their pledges could become a reality soon.

It exploits the technical potential of BMW's xDrive system and its intelligent and dynamic distribution of drive power which continuously and fully variable distributes torque between the front and rear axle within milliseconds.

It's an amazing effort which combines the experience of Half - Life with the technical potential of the modern smartphone.

In an energy systems context, three metrics have emerged to evaluate the feasibility of proposed policies or actions: technical potential, economic potential, and social potential.

-- The technical potential of renewable energy technologies exceeds the current global energy demand by a considerable amount — globally and in respect of most regions of the world.

PV Magazine reports that NREL's new analysis of the technical potential of solar photovoltaics and concentrating solar power in the US places the total amount that can be installed just under 200,000 GW, capable of generating just under 400,000 Terawatt - hours annually — hugely exceeding the electricity generating capacity of the US for 2010 of 4,125 TWh.

The group recommends increased research on the technical potential and possible environmental impacts, but also expanded work on the ethical, legal and social implications of such interventions.

Onshore wind power was found to have the technical potential of generating 32,700 TWh annually; offshore wind power, 17,500 TWh.

The full report also goes into the potential of other renewable energy sources, but these far trail the technical potential of solar power.

The summit brought owners, operators, manufacturers and service providers together to discuss operations issues in the world's ninth largest wind energy fleet, and explore innovative tools and techniques to increase efficiencies, drive down costs, and unlock the technical potential of modern wind power facilities.

McKinsey is bullish on the technical potential for «biological» carbon removal approaches.

New England has abundant onshore wind energy resources, with the technical potential to supply about 60 percent of the region's current electricity use.

For this analysis, we compared estimates of the technical potential for rooftop solar systems in each state (as estimated in a GIS - based analysis by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) with residential electricity use (from the most recent EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey or RECS).

But it is not only the technical potential which is crucial for successful introduction of energy efficient technologies.

The report surveys a range of ways in which farm emissions can be lowered and its baseline figures have been read for the technical potential of each technique in 2010, with adjustments (see attachment).

It provides resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide and tools for evaluating the technical potential of renewable energies.

Key findings of the SRREN include that the technical potential for renewable energies is substantially higher than projected future energy demand, and that renewable energies play a crucial role in all mitigation scenarios.